Passphrase generator

Hello Arnaud,

This has been requested by a few of our users already so we will definitely up the priority on being able to generate passphrases in RDM, since we can see it would be very useful for our community.
Thank you for the details on what kinds of customization options would be useful for you, we will be sure to add these possibilities. We will post back here once we have an update on this request.

Regards,

Obligatory xkcd: xkcd: Password Strength

I think this would be a cool feature, too. I typically use correcthorsebatterystaple.net for generating passphrases instead of the generator in RDM.

I second the request. And if would be possible to change the passphrase keyword language it would be a plus!

Hi,
Do you have any updates on this request?
We really need this for implementing specific password policies.

Best regards

Hello,

Your interest in such a feature has been noted and added to the ticket opened with our Engineering Department.
That being said, we have no updates to provide on that matter at this time. We will update this thread as soon as we have more information.

Best regards,

Hi,

We have added this feature internally. It should be available starting with version 2023.1

Regards,

That's great news! Thanks, team, I look forward to using it once deployed.

Great news, thanks to the team!

This option will be available in DWL (browser extension) ?

Hi,

Thank you for the request. We've opened a ticket so we can add a passphrase mode for the password generator in DWL as well.

Best regards,

Or allow us to add a custom script to generate pass phrases so we could at a external generator like https://github.com/bbusschots/hsxkpasswd/releases

Hi?
I've just tried the new feature and it's looking great!
A last addition that could be really nice could be a character limit.

Some interfaces doesn't allow more than 20 characters but we still need a passphrase for various reason.
I would like to set be able to set a limit in de password templates, the goal is to avoid that someone generate a too long password and loose access because the interface didn't warned him.

Could this be possible please?

Hi,

I was responsible for the initial implementation on Windows, I'll be making a improvement ticket on your behalf and will keep you posted.

Regards,

Great, thanks a lot

Hi,
I noticed that we can't define parameters for passphrase template with DVLS so the feature is basically useless for us...
We would like to be able to define this:

• Number of words
• Word's separator (dash, underscore, space, wildcard... you name it)
• If words starting or not in capital (or put capital on a random one)
• Include numbers or not, example: trick-poney-3cloud-silver
• And as previously requested, a maximum lenght would be very useful

This is critical for us, could you have a look to implement it soon please?
I'm convinced it will be a great feature and lot of other customer will use it.

Best regards,

Hi,

We made a ticket for this internally and will start working on this issue in the following weeks.
I'll make sure to keep you posted on further development

Regards,

Hi Jean-François,
Thanks for the update!

Hi,
Is there any news about the lenght limit please?
We need this feature for implementing passphrase for some templates.

Here is more info about why this could be useful.
There is some systems that aren't coded nicely:
They let you to put more than the number of characters they allow, and when we commit they truncate the data.
This can lead to incident because the next time someone try to log he receive a bad password message, and we have to troubleshoot etc...

If the engineer isn't aware of this truncate issue, they could lose a lot of working time on it.
This is why we prefer to configure a password template with a characters lilmit for these systems.

Hi,

We don't have any news concerning this feature at the moment.
We increased its priority and will keep you informed about any further developments

Regards,

Hi there,
Still not any news about this request?

I also noticed we can't select a passphrase password template when configuring a credential template with RDM.
Here is an example, I have a template that's named "Local account Windows Server (Template)" and it's not listed.

Hello Arnaud,

I will see if we can increase the priority on this and schedule it for our 2025.2 roadmap. It's not a very complicated change but we do need to synchronize this between our different products and platforms, since this can be used in password templates.

As for your second point, the reason why this is not available at the moment is because of a technical limitation. The password template feature used to be separate from the "password complexity" and the two of them worked differently, and harmonizing them wasn't simple. We will see what we can do for this as well.

Regards,